Immerse Blog
Going Deeper With Initiation
by Tim Baker on January 6th, 2012 -- filed under Story
The first time I ever saw my son Jacob, he peed all over the floor. And, if you’re a parent, you get how wonderful newborn pee is.
Seconds-old Jacob had apparently been holding back his first trip to the bathroom for weeks, maybe the whole nine months. So the moment his tiny newborn body entered the cold hands of our family OBGYN, the dam broke in his bladder, and Jacob covered the table and the doctor’s hands, before the doctor eventually held him upside down so he could finish his business.
Jacob doesn’t obviously remember anything about that moment, but he retells that story often. We have many of these stories in our house about Jacob—the time he broke his arm; his first rash; strep throat; and, my favorite: the first time he put his Fender mini strat behind his head all “Jimi Hendrix style” and played the pentatonic scale perfectly. I’ve been there for everything. I love my son more than I love the air I breathe. And when we pray together at night, we often put our foreheads together and say secret things to each other. He tells me about the hopes he has for his life, what he wants to do, asking me what I think God is calling him to become. We talk about what it means to have a crush on a girl and who has bigger arm muscles.
I desire so much for Jacob. I want him to be a good man, a good husband…
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